Andrew Martin COMM 336 Informative Paper 4/4/2013 Tesla Motors Tesla Motors is a car company that designs‚ manufactures and sells electric vehicles. This public company was founded in 2003 by Ian Wright‚ JB Straubel‚ Marc Tarpenning‚ Martin Eberhard and most notably Elon Musk. Its headquarters is located in Palo Alto‚ California‚ with its main production plant in Fremont‚ California. The company was named after Nikola Tesla‚ a renowned electrical engineer and physicist. Its goal is to
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Tesla Motors was not really challenged the way other innovative ideas have been in the past‚ however it was repeatedly dismissed. Before the Roadster came out people put the idea of an practical electric auto into the boondoggle category. After it came out detractors denounced it as a niche market car. Belittled Tesla Motors by implying they had only succeeded in editing a Lotus Elise into an electric go-kart. After the Tesla Model S was released the tune changed drastically. For the first time
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GREEN OX Overview In the fall of 2003‚ the new products division of Palmer Jackson‚ Inc.‚ a Cincinnati-based food and beverage manufacturer‚ successfully perfected a technique for dissolving common antioxidants such as Vitamin E and Selenium into high-glucose beverages. The result was a new line of sports beverages with the added benefit of antioxidants. While the medical community was far from unanimous in its opinion of the benefits of antioxidants‚ some reputable studies linked the use of these
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The bottom of the economic pyramid concept has pros and cons alike. From a business perspective there are vast untapped markets sitting there waiting for someone to take hold. Unfortunately‚ the limitations of entering new global markets make it difficult and possibly unsafe for companies to tap some markets. The obvious potential to add a new source of revenue should be tempting for large companies who have the means to attempt breaking into a new market. Overcoming the “red tape” per say has
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Cipla 2011‚ Harvard Business Case‚ March 27‚ 2012 1°) Since AIDS was identified in 1982‚ various entities have been aiming at limiting the expansion of the pandemic. However each of these entities has had a different role and thus different results: * The World Health Organization has had a critical role through the coordination of the different actors involved. It has obtained significant results in terms of treatments coverage in the last few years. Its action has been completed by the UNAIDS
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Tesla Model S Table of Contents Executive Summary Situation Statement Tesla Motors Inc. is preparing for its Toronto debut in January 2010. Tesla wants to create preorder sales for its debut. The company wants to position its vehicles as viable alternatives to gasoline cars. It also wants to generate buzz for its cars in Toronto. Objectives Create 24 sales by the December 2010 debut of Tesla Motors in Toronto. Strategy Use exclusivity to generate hype and therefore sales for Tesla
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should have. He had no in depth knowledge of Kenworth Motors‚ its operations and even less of Mr. Robert Denton (the plant manager). In addition of having no knowledge of this potential new customer‚ the consultant relied on his experience and recommendation of an existing client who interacted with Mr. Denton in a non-professional environment. During their brief telephone conversation‚ Denton identify himself as being the manager of Kenworth Motors‚ and how he was interested in having a meeting with
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Background John Amasi is the Director of Production and Engineering at RL Wolfe‚ “a $350M privately held plastic pipe manufacturer headquartered in Houston‚ Texas” (Gavin & Collins‚ 2009). John is Director of two companies soon to be three and is looking to implement Self-Directed Teams‚ (SDTs) into RL Wolfe’s third company which will be called Corpus Christy. RL Wolfe’s other two companies are unionized and are facing many issues. Amasi has done much research and has learned that Self-Directed Teams
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The Harvard Management Co. and Inflation-Protected Bonds TIPS and Risk Management: How can you combine regular (nominal) Treasuries and TIPS to build a hedge portfolio that has exposure to inflation risk‚ but not to real interest risk? To hedge bond portfolio that has exposure to inflation risk‚ one could simultaneously take long positions in TIPS and short positions in nominal Treasuries with equivalent terms to maturity. To be specific‚ if the inflation increases‚ TIPS are likely to outperform
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Table of Contents: 1. BACKGROUND 3 2. TYPES OF COVERAGE 3 3. TYPES OF MOTOR INSURANCE POLICIES 4 3.1. MERCHANDISE INSURANCE 4 3.2. CARRIER LIABILITY INSURANCE 8 3.3. VEHICLE INSURANCE 9 3.4. THIRD PARTY LIABILITY INSURANCE 12 3.4.1. THIRD PARTY LIABILITY INSURANCE IN ROMANIA 12 3.4.2. INTERNATIONAL THIRD PARTY LIABILITY INSURANCE 14 4. GREEN CARD 16 5. BAAR - ROMANIAN MOTOR INSURERS’ BUREAU 17 6. UNIFORM AGREEMENT 21 7. INTERNAL REGULATIONS 26 8. AUTO INSURANCE PRODUCTS IN ROMANIA
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